Kindly permit me to reply to Mr.——'s uncalled-for...

C. J. Waddington—India.

Sind Gazette

Kindly permit me to reply to Mr.——'s uncalled-for onslaught on Christian Science, published in your issue of the 12th instant. Sincere Christian Scientists need neither apologists nor pulpits, but are ever ready to defend their rights and stand for their Principle. Slowly, surely, and silently, Christian or divine Science is working its way into the Christian world, dispelling the shadows of sin, error, and evil, healing diseases and ailments both mental and corporeal, acute and chronic, without medicine, and greatly benefiting millions of the human race today, socially, morally, physically, and intellectually, the world over.

The clerical critic says: "They [Christian Scientists] talk of wonderful cures and emphasize them." Thank God, well they may, I humbly say. "Let [him or] any clergyman try to cure his friends by their faith in him. Will that faith heal them? Yet Scientists will take the same cases and cures will follow," says Mrs. Eddy (the Founder of Christian Science) in her great work "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 359). She has healed infidels whose only objection to her method of healing was that Mrs. Eddy "as a Christian Scientist believed in the Holy Spirit while they, the patients, did not." That thousands of wonderful cures are daily wrought by the almighty God who is Love, Life, and Truth, through the humble agency of Christian Scientists, is a solid fact and not fiction.

Will this critic or any interested inquirer kindly write to me, and I shall willingly send him copies of the Christian Science Sentinel, The Christian Science Journal, or The Christian Science Monitor. The last is a daily illustrated paper of twelve or more pages, treating on various topics of general interest. The two former contain accounts of several cures in each issue, signed and authenticated by those who were themselves healed. They give their names and addresses fearlessly, as a small token of gratitude to God for their moral and physical healing through the spiritual agency of Christian Science, by spiritual, not material means; for Christian Scientists take no medicine and administer none.

Surely the clergyman knows not all this, or he would not have so drastically treated Christian Scientists by animadverting on the little he has heard so casually about them, as it seems. Let him but read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. The mere reading of that book has been under God the vehicle of wonderful cures everywhere, even in my own family on several occasions. In December last, I was healed within twelve hours of a severe attack of dysentery, which had prostrated me for three weeks, by simply reading and meditating on the religious tenets of Christian Science, to which every Christian Scientist subscribes his name and solemnly promises to observe. A few weeks later, my three sons, one after the other, were attacked by some eruptive disease. They were cured without any medical attendance or the application or taking of any drugs, but solely, thanks be to God, by the reading of Science and Health or by having it read to them. Last month, I was bitten by a bull-terrier on the arm. The marks of his fangs are still visible. I simply washed the wounds and put no application nor bandage on them. The reading of Science and Health, slowly, thoughtfully, meditatively, again cured me.

Please note, it is not the bare perusal of this golden book that heals the sick, but the thought upon and the practice of its precepts, cherishing its counsels, and realizing its truth and wisdom, which bring the blessing of God, through the knowledge of Christian Science, upon the sick and ailing, but faithful and zealous reader. "Thousands of letters could be presented," says the inspired author herself, "in testimony of the healing efficacy of Christian Science, and particularly concerning the vast number of people who have been reformed and healed through the perusal or study of this book" (Science and Health, p. 600).

In conclusion, I say that within the last thirty-two years nearly thirteen hundred Christian Science churches and societies have been organized. "By their fruits ye shall know them," said Christ Jesus. Christian Science is built on the "rock of ages," based on Truth, and breathes naught but love to God and man—His image and likeness.

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